{"id":83493,"date":"2014-05-03T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=83493"},"modified":"2014-05-03T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T03:30:28","slug":"the-mother-of-pearls-astonished-auctioneers-sell-a-gem-brought-in-as-a-humdrum-pair-of-earrings-for-nearly-a-million-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=83493","title":{"rendered":"The mother of pearls! Astonished auctioneers sell a gem brought in as a humdrum pair of earrings for nearly a million pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/natural-pearl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-83491\" alt=\"\u0574\u0561\u0580\u0563\u0561\u0580\u056b\u057f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/natural-pearl.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/natural-pearl.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/natural-pearl-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/natural-pearl-410x300.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have you got an old string of granny&#8217;s pearls sitting in a drawer somewhere? Well you might just want to dig them out!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because rare pearl worn as one of a pair of earrings for years has just sold at auction for a world record \u00a3811,000.<\/p>\n<p>It was worn as jewellery by a lady who had absolutely no idea how much it was worth and two large round pearls made up the earrings that had been given to her as a gift by her husband.<\/p>\n<p>He later showed them to experts who identified one of the gems as a natural pearl.<\/p>\n<p>The natural pearl had a diameter of 17.4mm and is the largest of its kind to have ever come up for auction.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from Woolley and Wallis Auctioneers of Salisbury, Wilts, gave it a pre-sale estimate of \u00a3120,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Have you got an old string of granny&#8217;s pearls sitting in a drawer somewhere?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}